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Here is a function you could call anytime you wanted to get just the browser ouput with no tags or puncuation or special charachters (ie &nbsp; or &#183
function cleanit($file) {
//Just add or remove any other puncuation marks you want to take out, make sure if it is a php sensitive character to escape it like I did with the period
$baddies = array("\.", ",", ":", "/", "-", "!", "&");
$file = file($file);
while (list($key,$val) = each($file)) {
$tmpstr = strip_tags($val);
$tmpstr = trim($tmpstr);
$tmpstr = stripslashes($tmpstr);
$tmpstr = ereg_replace("&[#a-zA-Z0-9]{4};", " ", $tmpstr);
for ($i=0;$i<count($baddies);$i++) {
$tmpstr = ereg_replace($baddies[$i], " ", $tmpstr);
}
$newstring .= $tmpstr." ";
}
return $newstring;
}